Hi Clyde,
Hi Clyde,
I work at a Subaru dealership, and I can tell you that you will not even touch a brand new STI for $40,000. I have owned both Subaru and Honda and can speak from experience that once we put the K24A2 in the 08 Civic Si and turbocharged it for around 4800.00 only running 8 lbs of boost on stock internals smokes an STI and your daily driven V8's muscle cars with no problem at all. I will not even stoop to the Ford Focus ST, that is not even worthy to talk about, just like the HY-UN-DAI Genesis Turbo, go waste your money.
Your 2.4l Subaru engine would cost you around the same $4800-15,000 depending on the upgrades required to work on the STI to get to your 500whp. They are not as cheap and easy to work on as most think, Hondas are far more cheaper to work on for sure because of the quantity of them around.
Again this is all from experience, not trying to ruin your dreams but just some insight before you purchase an STI for around 45-55K depending on options, and get your hopes all up when you jump off the line in the STI and think you have won, unless your racing 60 foot times...lol
Good Luck bud! Honda knows what they are doing for sure, its the Americans that cant drive cars that fast and kill everyone around them, but the car gets blamed of course. . lol
KO